POLITICOLE: Living with a history of corruption
MOST people think corruption refers to something big, unusual ... the behaviour of a select group. It can be, but it’s also – and maybe more often – the little, deceitful, ordinary things you do every day that eventually add up to a larger act of dishonesty that carries with it greater penalties and repercussions.
NASSAU LIFE: A plan for Baha Mar
Richard Coulson suggests a compromise of interests can be found to preserve the stalled mega-resort development
A COMIC'S VIEW: Wells and Rollins pointing the finger at the Emperor
This week has been one of defections, reflections and deflections. Members of Parliament switched teams, two leaders went head to head in the proverbial “political game of chess,” and somehow another “party” cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Defection is another nail in Christie’s political coffin
TODAY, Prime Minister Perry Christie must be feeling like a politically wounded man, losing two of his former political acolytes to the Free National Movement and reducing his parliamentary team from 30 in 2012 to 27 when Fort Charlotte MP Dr Andre Rollins and Bamboo Town MP Renward Wells crossed the floor.
NASSAU LIFE: The lessons we can learn from New York in fighting crime
I am not a criminologist. Nor am I a cop, a judge, a prosecutor, a public defender or a prison warden.
POLITICOLE: On Pointe . . .
What’s The Pointe? It’s not an inclusive development for the average Bahamian; not to my eyes or ears.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Pointless permits and chiming bells
There were a few interesting developments on the horizon this past week. Let’s begin.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Corruption inside the walls of Fox Hill prison
CORRUPTION is rife at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services, formerly known as the Her Majesty’s Prison, Fox Hill.
VIEW FROM AFAR: Importance of Disabilities Act
THE important Persons with Disabilities Act was gazetted on August 13, 2014. It establishes a National Commission for Persons with Disabilities managed by a board of trustees.
TOUGH CALL: Human rights abuses in The Bahamas
IN 2005, I wrote a column about human rights abuses in the modern Bahamas.
POLITICOLE: Gun violence and gun control - America and The Bahamas
I’m riding through an American town and I see from a fair distance a giant sign, red print on a white background, “G U N S...”, and underneath those four letters, “...and more”. Conceivably, the “and more” are accessories.
YOUR SAY: Opposition leader’s statement on the 2,000 Baha Mar layoffs
IT is with deep grief and concern for my fellow Bahamians that I received the news of the layoffs of 2,000 Bahamian men and women as a result of the winding up of the Baha Mar resort.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Time to hang up the jester’s hat, Mr Roberts
WHAT a topsy-turvy week it has been, with mud-slinging of all varieties from both sides of the political divide.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The storm that tore away the pretence of competence
HURRICANE Joaquin has not only made broad swaths of our people homeless refugees within their own country, but the storm is daily exposing the failed planning and incompetency of our government.
Seeing beyond the disability
OCTOBER marks National Disability Employment Awareness month when those with disabilities in the working environment are celebrated and recognised and awareness about disability employment issues raised.
